From My Window at An American Place, North
1930
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.7 x 9 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.7 x 27.7 cm (13 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1198
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Stieglitz Estate Number
136A
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Key Set Number
1320
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1320.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 136A
by later hands, on mount, upper right verso, in graphite: 0 [crossed out]; lower left verso: B; lower right verso: X
Wikidata ID
Q64036685
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set numbers 1321 and 1322 are all dated on the basis of documents recording the construction of several buildings seen under construction in the distance. In Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s–1970s, photograph no. 909.C2, dated 4 March 1930, shows the Hotel Pierre (to the right of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel) in the same stage of completion seen here. Judging from the height of the New York Trust Company Building (under construction in front of the Squibb Building), which was completed in late 1930, Key Set numbers 1321 and 1322 were made in May or June 1930, before Stieglitz left to go to Lake George on 17 June.